Quality Lead

Job overview

Are you a Mental Health Nurse/Occupational Therapist/Social Worker/Psychologist looking for a new leadership challenge.

South Shropshire Mental Health Service are looking to recruit a Band 7 Quality Lead to Provide expert clinical knowledge and interventions, advice, support and supervision in the multi-disciplinary pathway, to colleagues, service users and carers. The post holder will be responsible for providing leadership to deliver evidence based care and interventions and providing professional  leadership within the team alongside the team Operational Lead.

The team is geographically spread across the South East and South West PCN network area with bases in Ludlow and Bridgnorth, the post holder whilst being able to choose their main base would be expected to provide clinical guidance to the teams in both bases.

South Shropshire Mental Health Service provides a variety of functions , the successful post holder would be part of driving the quality agenda in all areas of the team including Assessments and Brief Interventions, Primary Care Interventions, Intensive Community Engagement Pilot, Caseload management and supervision.

Main duties of the job

• To provide appropriate advice to team staff, multi-disciplinary and Management Groups.
• To promote, encourage and develop integration between Community and inpatient services.
• In conjunction with the operational lead, monitor and manage the performance of the team and individual team members, to ensure achievements of Trust organisational targets/objectives.
• Ensure compliance with the Trust’s objectives in relation to the Quality and Safety Agenda achieving a continuous process of monitoring and improving safe effective care delivery
• Maintain a strong overview on environmental standards and address any issues relating to safety, dignity, poor quality and poor hygiene and Infection Control.
• Promote service audit, evaluation and research.
• To lead the development of service standards and policy, including benchmarking, and identifies areas for potential service improvement.
• To promote shared decision making with Service User involvement in all aspects of their care
• To ensure the availability of clinical supervision and preceptorship
• To act as the pathway link, enabling other pathways to engage support for a service user.
• To utilise expert clinical knowledge and nursing skills and /or specific to discipline to provide assessment, intervention and clinical guidance as appropriate.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

See attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification for Full description of duties and responsibilities

Informal visits welcome and a 1:1 discussion via Teams if further information is required prior to applying for the post